It’s almost three years since, the small, predominantly French-speaking town in northern Ontario asked the province for permission to drop a mandatory pledge of allegiance to the Queen required of incoming municipal politicians. The town is still waiting for an answer. Councillors from Hearst, about 950 kilometres northwest of Ottawa, voted to ask Ontario’s Ministry…
Category: Canadian politicians
Support For NDP MP Pat Martin’s Parliamentary Motion On The Monarchy
TORONTO – The newly-formed REPUBLIC NOW says it fully supports the Winnipeg MP who says it’s time for Canada to consider severing ties with the British monarchy and suggests his private member’s motion to strike her out of the citizenship oath is a small first step.
Changes To Royal Succession Face Legal Fight In Quebec.
Globe and Mail: June 07 2013 A motion has been filed in Quebec Superior Court taking issue with Canada’s Succession to the Throne Act, which gives consent to a bill adopted in British Parliament last April changing the rules of succession to allow for the firstborn, regardless of gender, to succeed to the throne.